reflink

Python reflink

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Python wrapper around the reflink system calls. Note: Python is implementing this natively upstream, cfr. https://bugs.python.org/issue37157.

Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://reflink.readthedocs.io.
Documentation for master branch: https://rubdos.gitlab.io/pyreflink/docs

Features

Btrfs, XFS, OCFS2 reflink support. Btrfs is tested the most.
Apple macOS APFS clonefile support. Little testing, be careful. It might eat data.
A convenience method that checks support for reflinks within a specific directory.

Installation

This library is available on pypi:

pip install reflink

Quick start example

To use Python reflink in a project:

from reflink import reflink
# Reflink copy 'large_file.img' to 'copy_of_file.img'
reflink("large_file.img", "copy_of_file.img")

Help wanted

Someone to implement a Windows/ReFS implementation

Support

Support on the GitLab repository, feel free to file an issue.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.2.0 (2018-03-09)

New features:

APFS/Darwin support
Filenames outside ascii are supported (thank you, Kriskras99)

Bug fixes:

Building on newer glibc (thank you, Frankie Dintino)
Better error handling for ENOENT

Other changes:

Continuous integration for Windows (AppVeyor), integrated in the GitLab pipeline

0.1.0 (2017-07-27)

First release on PyPI.

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